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To Arthur Henfrey   17 March [1855]

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Can AH give information about D. A. Godron, "De l’espèce et des races" [Mem. Soc. Sci. Lett. & Arts Nancy (1847): 182, 239–88]? CD unable to locate reference.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Arthur Henfrey
Date:  17 Mar [1855]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1648

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  • … Henfrey ed. 1853). See letter from J.  D. Hooker, 25 August 1854 , and letter to J.  D. …
  • 1854] , in which Braun 1853b was discussed. Godron 1848–9 . See letter to J.  D. Hooker, [ …

From J. D. Hooker   [before 17 March 1855]

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JDH criticises C. J. F. Bunbury’s paper on Madeira [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 1 (1857): 1–35].

Absence of Ophrys on Madeira suggests to JDH a sequence in creation of groups.

Why are flightless insects common in desert?

Australian endemism.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 17 Mar 1855]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 210–13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1644

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  • … Bentham . See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 11 [December 1854] . Bentham eventually included …

To J. D. Hooker   11 May [1855]

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JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.

On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  11 May [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 131
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1680

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  • … Hooker 1855 ). See letter from J.  D. Hooker, 25 August 1854 . Binney was elected a fellow …

To J. D. Hooker   18 [July 1855]

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Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes’s doctrine.

JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  18 [July 1855]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 142
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1719

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  • … CUL. W.  J. Hooker and J.  D. Hooker 1847 . Wollaston 1854 . See letter from T.  V. …

To T. C. Eyton   26 November [1855]

Summary

Asks TCE’s advice on preparation of birds’ skeletons.

His pigeon collection is growing; now has pairs of ten varieties.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:  26 Nov [1855]
Classmark:  Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/41)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1784

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  • … August [1855] . See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 11 [December 1854] , n.  13. In CD’s Address …

To G. R. Waterhouse   4 March [1855]

Summary

A page of [unspecified] text is missing from a parcel of material received from GRW.

CD "hopes and expects to live to see Carboniferous, & perhaps even Silurian, mammifers!"

Has several questions to ask whenever they meet.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Robert Waterhouse
Date:  4 Mar [1855]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/29)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1641

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  • … status (see letter from J.  D. Hooker, 25 August 1854 , n.  11, and letter to J.  D. …

To W. D. Fox   26 April [1855]

Summary

Explains more clearly what he is looking for in his work on poultry: relative variation at different ages, the effect of disuse on different parts, breeding between wild and domestic, and degree of fertility of "mongrels of very diverse races".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  26 Apr [1855]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 89)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1675

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  • … for their eggs. See letters to J.  D. Hooker, 11 [December 1854] , and to W.  D. Fox, 19  …

To J. D. Hooker   14 [August 1855]

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When JDH goes to Germany, will he ask seed men if their marvellous true breeding lines are the result of selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  14 [Aug 1855]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 145
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1741

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  • … this genus, see letter from J.  D. Hooker, 5 December [1854] . In Natural selection , p.   …

To Asa Gray   24 August [1855]

Summary

"Close" species in large and small genera.

Alphonse de Candolle on geographical distribution [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)].

Species variability.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  24 Aug [1855]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (10)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1749

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  • … letter to J.  D. Hooker, [April 1852] ). See Living Cirripedia (1854):  155, where CD …

To J. D. Hooker   27 May [1855]

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CD’s seed paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8];

CD attacks Forbes’s "Atlantis".

Considers solutions to floating problem. Decides to test Azores seeds.

Photographs and drawings of CD.

Plant movement experiments with Hedysarum gyrans.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  27 May [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 132
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1688

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  • … 1847 . Wollaston 1854 , pp. xiii–xiv. The introductory essay to J.  D. Hooker and Thomson …
  • J.  D. Hooker and Thomson 1855, pp.  13–18). William Benjamin Carpenter must have seen an advance copy of the work since it was published in July (L.  Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 374). Principles of general and comparative physiology ( Carpenter 1839 ). An annotated copy of the fourth edition ( Carpenter 1854 ) …

To W. D. Fox   19 March [1855]

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Asks WDF to observe at what age pigeons have tail-feathers sufficiently developed to be counted.

CD is hard at work on his notes for a book with all the facts "for & versus" the immutability of species.

Asks for a young chicken and a nestling common pigeon.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  19 Mar [1855]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 87)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1651

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  • … for pigeons. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 11 [December 1854] . CD’s family Bible (Down …

To J. D. Hooker   14 [July 1855]

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CD experiments: sowing seeds in fields; "breaking" seeds’ constitution with coloured light; plant hybridisation. Compiling works on hybridism.

Respect for W. B. Carpenter.

Note on "nectar secreting" to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 258–9].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  14 [July 1855]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 141
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1717

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  • J.  D. Hooker, 5 June [1855] ). William Benjamin Carpenter , who had discussed hybridity, monsters, and the origin of variation in Carpenter 1854 , …

From Robert Hunt   19 July 1855

Summary

Discusses how best to simulate the light at a particular point on the earth’s surface using coloured glass; considers sunlight as composed of three "principles", varying in proportion according to latitude, which affect germination, lignification, and floriation.

Author:  Robert Hunt
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 July 1855
Classmark:  DAR 261.11: 17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1721

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  • … letter to J.  D. Hooker, 14 [July 1855] ). Described in R.  Hunt 1854 . R.  Hunt 1854 , …

From John Davy   30 January 1855

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Responds to CD’s letter. The ova of Salmonidae exposed to air, if kept moist, will stay alive up to 72 hours.

Author:  John Davy
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Jan 1855
Classmark:  DAR 205.2: 227
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1634

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  • 1854 . CD had suggested experiments that might be performed to determine under what conditions fishes’ ova retained their vitality. He told Joseph Dalton Hooker that this was ‘in order to see how fishes’ ova might get transported’ ( letter to J.  D. …

To Syms Covington   28 February 1855

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Pleased to hear that SC is prospering.

News of FitzRoy, Sulivan and J. L. Stokes.

The Crimean War is badly mismanaged, but Englishmen are behaving nobly.

Wishes he knew what to do with his boys.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Syms Covington
Date:  28 Feb 1855
Classmark:  Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, pp. 254–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1637

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  • 1854. Bartholomew James Sulivan commanded a vessel in naval actions during the war with Russia (H.  N. Sulivan ed. 1896). See letter to J.  D. Hooker, …

To Charles Lyell   4 November [1855]

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Comments on two pamphlets by John Bachman [probably Continuation of the review of "Nott and Gliddon’s types of mankind" (1855) and An examination of the characteristics of genera and species as applicable to the doctrine of the unity of the human race (1855)].

CD’s pigeon breeding and plant hybridization experiments.

Invites CL to visit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  4 Nov [1855]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.115)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1772

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  • 1854, a work CD recorded having read in December 1855 ( Correspondence vol.  4, Appendix IV, 128: 13, 14). CD’s copy of Nott and Gliddon 1854 is in the Darwin Library–CUL. William Henry Fitton . William Whewell . J.  D. Hooker

To J. S. Henslow   12 October [1855]

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Is impressed by all JSH is doing with his lectures and exhibitions at Hitcham.

Has read admirable Hooker MS on variation, geographical range, etc. [Introductory essay to the Flora Indica (1855)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  12 Oct [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A117–18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1765

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  • 1854] and 13 March 1855 ). He refers to the genera Coronula , found attached to whales, and Platylepas , which attaches to turtles. It is not clear to which of Hooker’s papers CD refers: possibly he had seen an early draft of [J.  D. …

From Thomas Vernon Wollaston   2 March [1855]

Summary

Hybrid insects.

Description of the Salvages.

Variability of "transition groups" of insects; relation of variability to ranges of insects. The variability of wings, even within species. Reduction of flying ability on isolated islands.

Forbes’s "Atlantis" theory and insect fauna of the Atlantic islands, considered with regard to insect migrations.

Author:  Thomas Vernon Wollaston
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Mar [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 181: 136
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1640

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  • J.  D. Hooker, 7 March [1855] . See also Natural selection , p.  291. Statistics on apterous beetles are cited from Wollaston 1854   …
  • 1854 , p. xii). CD discussed the origin of apterous insects, with special reference to Wollaston’s findings, at length in Natural selection , pp.  291–3. See also letter from J.  D. Hooker, [ …

To M. J. Berkeley   7 April [1855]

Summary

Asks for a pea variety for an experiment.

Discusses C. F. v. Gärtner’s results [in Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]. Criticises Gärtner’s belief that hybrids are always less fertile than their parents.

Asks about MJB’s experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:  7 Apr [1855]
Classmark:  Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/41)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1662

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  • 1854, p.  404, and also mentioned biefly in Berkeley 1850–1 (see n.  6, below). These peas were a different colour from the normal peas of the mother plant, an effect that Berkeley ascribed to the direct action of the pollen of the other parent on the outer coating of the ovule. However, CD had been misled by inaccurate labelling at Kew (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, …

From H. C. Watson   11 October 1855

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Sends London catalogue of British plants with close species marked.

Charges E. Forbes with fraudulent appropriation of others’ work.

Comments on, and cites possible cases of, CD’s imagined rule that individuals of one or more species in a genus vary in some of those characters by which the species of that genus are distinguished.

Author:  Hewett Cottrell Watson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Oct 1855
Classmark:  DAR 47: 163a–b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1764

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  • 1854 . Watson had accused Edward Forbes of plagiarism (see Correspondence vol.  3, letter from J.  D. Hooker, [ …
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